Review of Art:i:curate: Restate, NEO Bankside, London
As New Yorkers know from experience, artists are the shock troops of gentrification. As a Londoner this is taken more like an axiom than a principle but still seems to hold true.
As New Yorkers know from experience, artists are the shock troops of gentrification. As a Londoner this is taken more like an axiom than a principle but still seems to hold true.
The RSA Annual Exhibition is a focal point of the Royal Scottish Academy’s programme, showcasing work from academicians the length and breadth of Scotland. It is now in its 188th year.
Six practices, wildly diverse in culture, generation and medium, are united in their subject: our varying perceptions and measurements of time in the exhibition About Time, currently showing at Maddox Arts until 31 May.
YIA Art Fair runs in Paris 23 – 26 October during FIAC. Founded in 2010 the event supports the emerging contemporary art scene. The fair seeks out unique venues to allow visitors to experience special spaces and this year the participants take over Carreau du Temple.
What does “science fiction” mean in the 21st century? A traditional definition is that it is writing, or other artistic works, that presuppose a technology, or an effect of technology, such as humanity has not yet experienced.
Kourtney Roy’s striking fashion photography is currently on the cover of Aesthetica. Roy began her career with the intention of becoming a painter. However, after taking a photography course she quickly found a passion for this art form.
This year at the Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, there was a dizzyingly fascinating gathering of art galleries from around the world. China was the guest of honour, after Russia last year.
The UK’s leading artist-led fair returns to Ambika P3 this April for its sixth edition. The Other Art Fair runs 24 – 27 April and will feature work by 100 of the best, unrepresented artists coupled with a dynamic program of talks, workshops and events.
Recently opened at the Grand Palais until 21 July, this retrospective shows off 20 works and is the first video art exhibition at the National Galleries. The experience of going to the exhibition visit is conceived as a journey.
German artist Sybille Neumeyer was announced as the winner of the Main Prize for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2014 at the exhibition preview last night. Her stunning light installation Song for the Last Queen is comprised of 7,614 bees.
The Aesthetica Art Prize 2014 launches today. In anticipation of tonight’s opening, we speak to last year’s winner Damien O’Mara who took home the Main Prize award with his photographic piece.
This year’s Prix Pictet exhibition will go on show at the V&A in London. The show marks a collaboration between the Prix Pictet and the V&A museum, which was the first museum in the world to begin collecting photography as an art form.
The Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition opens this week at York St Mary’s. Celebrating innovative and outstanding artworks, the display features shortlisted pieces from international artists.
Barrie Dale is a primarily a scientist, but is also known for his painting and his music. All around him he sees nature being destroyed, to the point where it is possible to envisage none being left, so he became a conservationist.
Born in Santa Margherita Ligure in 1930, Gianni Berengo Gardin has produced more than 200 books and exhibitions in his 60-year career.
Both a documentary photographer and cultural commentator, Phil Bergerson has spent the past 20 years constructing a visual historical record of the depleting remnants of the American Dream.
Mixing precise colour palettes with beautiful settings, Kourtney Roy regularly appears as her own subject, taking on different personas in a myriad of contexts.
After the devastation caused by World War II, Britain was in desperate need of optimism and re-development. During the course of the war Britain suffered the tragic loss of 383,800 soldiers’ lives.
Scream in London will be opening an exhibition by Chinese artist Liu Bolin on the 3 April. The exhibition, titled The Heroic Apparition, is the latest in Bolin’s unseen works of camouflage trickery. Based in Beijing, Bolin’s work highlights the socio-political tensions within China.
